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You must be kidding me - Review written on October 08, 2008
Rating: 1 out of 5
1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
Four stars? Seriously?
This was one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time, and was easily the worst film William Macy or Marissa Tomei have ever appeared in. I like stupid comedies as much as the next guy, but they have do one thing: make me laugh.
I didn't feel like this one even made the attempt. The film makers seemed to have other things to do, perhaps catching up on paperwork. Here, watch Tim Allen burn down their tent with a marshmallow. Not laughing? Clearly what's needed is more homophobia jokes. Still not laughing...hmmm, let's steal the unfunny part of the Three Amigos and talk some moralizing at the end. Beats working!
I've been to Madrid. It's a really weird, wacky town. Just walking around with a video camera talking to the locals would have produced a far more interesting interesting film that this piece of dreck. But for some unfathomable reason, they carefully expunged all traces of the actual Madrid from their set.
Why? Did they think that John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence and William Macy were so just gosh-durn interesting to watch that they didn't want to distract from their "talent" by showing the actual place they decided to shoot in?
Hollywood egotism at its absolute worst.
Perfect Comedy!!! - Review written on October 02, 2008
Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful.
This is an awesome comedy, because it has a lot of great actors like Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, John Travolta, and William H. Macy! 4 middle-aged friends named Doug, Bobby, Dudley, and Woody want to 'get away from it all' and go on a road trip on their Harley-Davidsons. A lot of hilarious situations happen such as the men skinny dipping, and a family want to join them. Later, they have to deal with a motorcycle gang called the Del Fuegos. The Del Fuegos become mad when Woody accidentally burns down their bar. The Wild Hogs seek comfort in a small town called Madrid. Dudley falls in love with Maggie, the owner of a restaurant. The Del Feugos come to Madrid wanting revenge. The Wild Hogs decide to stand up for the town and fight back. If you love comedy, you'll love WILD HOGS!!!
The Mild Boars - Review written on February 19, 2008
Rating: 2 out of 5
5 customers found this review helpful.
John Travolta really did a terrible job of acting in this lame movie. He only came alive briefly when he sneaked behind enemy lines to cut the gas lines of the Del Fuego's motorcycles, causing their hang out to go up in flames. Sorry if I spoiled the suspense.
I never saw it, but I heard that he made a movie based on the science fiction writing of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, that could be worse than The Wild Hogs, but it is hard to imagine how. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000. I gave The Wild Hogs 2 stars, just in case this other Travolta vehicle is actually worse. A 1 star film has to be like, Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Travolta was great in Pulp Fiction. Saturday Night Fever, even. Urban Cowboy? All right, I suppose. He was good as Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter--though constantly overshadowed by the scene stealing Horshak. He might have even been good in the film version of the musical version of the film Hairspray. Though I doubt he topped the divine performance of Divine, even with the help of co-star Christopher (More Cowbell!!!!) Walken. But in a lame movie like The Wild Hogs, Travolta really stuck out as the lamest of the lame.
I would say that Tim Allen and Martin Lawrence were at a slightly higher level of acting then they displayed in their sit coms, Home Improvement and Martin. That is appropriate for this kind of movie, so they did their jobs adequately. William H. Macy is, according to several women who offered their opinons unsolicited, one of the least attractive men to ever trod planet Earth. I guess when he gets the girl, we should all be cheering him on. The woman he falls for was really the best actor, ever, just to make you believe that she liked him. Ray Liotta makes for a scary villain. Cameo by Peter Fonda--good to see him. He hasn't done much since Easy Rider. Jack Nicholson has eclipsed him ten fold, and even Dennis Hopper has done more since Easy Rider. The woman who plays Chris Rock's mom on Everybody Hates Chris played Martin Lawrence's wife. I like her, but this stupid film wasted her talent.
I was just reading about the Oscars, and how the films that get the awards usually aren't the ones that do well at the Box Office. With few exceptions, like Titanic, they rarely overlap. Of this year's nominees for best picture, Juno actually did the best at the box office. It's pro life theme played well in the Midwest, and it built an audience by good word-of-mouth. It was maybe 23rd or 27th. But The Wild Hogs ranked 13th or 15th at the box office. Still, I don't care. It was extremely lame. It won't win any Oscars and the critics will pan it. I am sad that a movie as lame as this would actually earn any money whatsoever.
Easy Rider
The Wild One
Pulp Fiction
Welcome Back, Kotter
Saturday Night Fever
Battlefield Earth
The Cooler
Boogie Nights
Fargo
Hairspray
Fun popcorn flick - Review written on February 06, 2008
Rating: 3 out of 5
1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
This movie was throughly entertaining. Smart casting on this film - each actor brings something very different (and a different audience) to the core group of four guys who hit the road on their motorcycles for a middle-age-crisis trip. (No wonder it did pretty well at the box office. Martin Lawrence and Tim Allen provide the "comedian" power, and Bill Macy and John Travolta have the acting cred.)
The movie tells the story of Doug (Allen), Dudley (Macy), Woody (Travolta), and Bobby (Lawrence), four friends who get together on the weekends to ride motorcycles. Due to various things going on in each of their lives, the guys decide to take a 2,000 mile road trip to the coast together. On the way, they cement their friendships, learn more about each other and themselves, et. al.
This was a fun ride. While the plot itself is no dynamo, the characters (and the way the actors portrayed them) made it worth watching. When Woody "accidentally" blows up a biker bar, Travolta's freak-outs are pretty dead on. Macy is, as always, soooo true.
A fun family flick. Break out the popcorn for this one.
Not on a par with City Slickers - Review written on January 16, 2008
Rating: 3 out of 5
A good premise and a high-dollar cast are squandered with a mundane script, a surprising lack of chemistry between the actors, and an overabundance of potty and homosexuality humor. I certainly wouldn't call this a "family film" -- at least not for pre-teens. Most of the humor in this film is either the guys talking about or actually going to the bathroom -- on the roadside, in plastic bags, in motorhomes they flagged down -- or else acting ambiguously gay, getting naked together, spooning in a sleeping bag, confronting the same gay motorcycle cop repeatedly, sniffing each other's cologne while riding double, or giving male/male dancing lessons (how many times have we seen THAT gag in a movie?). The remaining humor is mostly slapstick motorcyle wrecks. As for the plot, it's your basic mid-life crisis/road/buddy movie, a genre much better represented by the near-flawless City Slickers or the darker Planes, Trains and Automobiles. There's not much real message here, not that a comedy has to have one. The Wild Hogs' ultimate confrontation scene with the Del Fuegos started to go somewhere (albeit lifted directly from Cool Hand Luke), but the ending was a typical Hollywood schmaltz letdown, complete with the sudden, improbable arrival of various people simultaneously, which was necessary to wrap things up quickly and neatly. To summarize, was Wild Hogs terrible? Not really. Kinda funny? Sure, occasionally. But hilarious? I certainly didn't think so.